Tag Archives: servitisation

I’ve blogged before about this issue of how manufacturers are no longer selling their products but selling the services that their products provide. For a more detailed understanding of how this can be implemented successfully manufacturer.com have published a white … Continue reading →

We define offshoring as moving operations from a high cost economy, often the ‘home’ country of the firm, to a low cost economy (page 444). And this whole issue has had a much higher profile with the election of Donald … Continue reading →

As you know the focus of this blog is on operations, so I do not often comment on a company’s financial performance. But this headline about an iconic firm was so striking that I thought I would look into it … Continue reading →

There was not room in our book for a detailed explanation of the servitisation strategy. So in October 2014, I wrote a series of seven blogs explain this strategy in some detail. This video provides a good introduction and … Continue reading →

Last year we wrote a series of blogs that explored and explained the operations strategy ‘servitisation’. So it is interesting to see this article on The Manufacturer website that discusses the important role that service provision plays in the success … Continue reading →

In our book we have chapters on three ‘operations strategies’ – lean, agile and internationalisation. But we refer briefly to several others, such as mass customisation, servitisation, ubiquitisation, and low cost. So, in order to provide more detail, I have written … Continue reading →

Tukker (2004) has looked at eight specific types of servitisation (or product-service systems) and identified their likely environmental impact. In most cases PSS are sustainable business models. The conclusions are as follows: Product related services. There may be steps made to … Continue reading →

Konecranes is a global company headquartered in Finland. The company provides a wide range of lifting solutions and equipment for a number of sectors, with general manufacturing, ports, pulp and paper, steel and automotive being its main markets. Konecranes’ doesn’t stop at the … Continue reading →

As we have seen in previous blogs, the adoption of servitisation is widespread – across many industry sectors and across many countries. The key challenge of this strategy is that it requires manufacturers to think and act in different ways to the way … Continue reading →

Manufacturers may find that adopting servitisation may lead to undesirable outcomes and be unsuccessfully implemented. One the potential problems can be that suppliers take over responsibility for some aspect of a customer’s business and this exposes them to consequent risks. As … Continue reading →